# What Are Your Handwriting Quirks?

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**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-handwriting-quirks/979409 "2023-02-07T01:56:17Z")\
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Inspired by [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-write-a-letter-o/978940/61).

I use the capital N and capital R instead of lowercase. The reason is that my handwriting is borderline illegible under the best of circustances, and my lowercase r’s and lowercase n’s would be indistinguilshable from one another. So my written first name looks like this: AaRoN. [Obligatory joke reference](https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw?t=133).

My written number four does not look like this: 4. The northwestern stroke is vertical.

I haven’t written in cursive in probably 30 years (I was born in 1970).

What are your writing quirks?

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